Andrea Palm

Andrea Palm
United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
Assumed office
May 12, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byEric Hargan
Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Acting as designee
In office
January 7, 2019 – January 20, 2021
GovernorTony Evers
Preceded byLinda Seemeyer
Succeeded byKaren Timberlake (acting)
Personal details
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Star Lake, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Dan Utech
(m. 2012)
EducationCornell University (BS)
Washington University (MSW)

Andrea Joan Palm[1] (born 1973) is an American government health advisor who is the United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration. Previously, Palm served as secretary-designee of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services from 2019 to 2021 in the administration of Governor Tony Evers, an office she was never sworn into due to Republican opposition in the Wisconsin Senate.[2]

She worked as a senior staffer in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and as a White House policy advisor during the presidency of Barack Obama. She was an aide to Hillary Clinton during her time in the United States Senate.[3]

  1. ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). The White House. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  2. ^ Rein, Lisa (January 18, 2021). "Biden, filling out his government, to name five women as deputy secretaries". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  3. ^ "Executive Team Bios". Wisconsin Department of Health Services. 2014-09-12. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-16.